Roderick Sutherland has been found guilty of manslaughter in connection with the 2020 murder of Megan Gallagher.

A 12-person jury at Court of King's Bench in Saskatoon returned its verdict Friday. Jurors also found Sutherland guilty on charges of unlawful confinement and offering an indignity to human remains.

The decision ends a legal journey for her family that began five years ago when the 30-year-old disappeared under suspicious circumstances.

Police believed within months of her September 2020 disappearance that she had been killed. It wasn't until two years later that her remains were found on the bank of the South Saskatchewan River, about 105 kilometres northeast of Saskatoon, near the village of St. Louis.

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